About This Site

Advertising

I also post some links here and there for Dreamhost, a web hosting company that I’ve used since the late 1990s. Since I personally use their services and have been for more than 10 years, I am happy to post advertisements for them. I haven’t had many problems and whenever I did, they were really good at helping me. I get a percentage of new signups which gets applied to my hosting bill first.

Every so often, I link to Amazon. I’ve used them in the USA and have had no issues with them. I get a commission for each sale, usually.

I also have links to the Brave browser which I use myself. If you download it using any of the links you see here, you will help support my website. You can get some basic attention tokens and share them with me. Downloading from the link will help you get set up quickly and easily.

I have removed all Google ads from my website.

Donating and Contributing

You can help me and my website by buying certain services or donating.

Comments/Feedback

I love getting comments on my blog entries. It shows me that people are reading and that they have something to say. Sometimes they can spark new weblog entries and sometimes they can make me rethink a certain position that I have.

Though I encourage open discussion, these following things are not tolerated:

Harassing, bullying, or name calling: If you have to resort to calling someone a nasty name to get your point across, then you’re doing it wrong.

Racism, homophobia, xenophobia, or sexism: If you’re targeting a certain group of people for some reason, you’re doing it wrong (again).

Promotion: I’m not an advertising board for you. If you’re trying to sell your cheap sunglasses or medications, it’s not going to happen.

If the comment is bad enough, and even if it hasn’t been posted, I will ban you.

If your comment is too personal in nature, and you don’t want it to be seen publicly, please message me instead.

Opinions

If someone somehow tries to link my opinions to any of my employers, don’t. The opinions I express in this weblog are my very own and do not represent any position held by anybody who employs me. I think for myself.

Your Privacy

Individually, I don’t collect information about you on this website. I do use cookies to get basic information about your visit, for example, the pages that you visit, what country you’re from, how you got here, and such. This information helps me determine what I write about and who is reading it. Your personal information is never attached to this statistical information.

Though I’d be missing out on this important information, I encourage you to use browsers that block trackers. Many of them now do, but I suggest using Brave, Ghostery or any other browser that values your privacy.

If you comment and/or subscribe to be updated about new posts, your name and email address is collected, however, I do not and will not send out any emails that you did not ask for. I have better things to do.

Traffic to and from my website is encrypted.

I do not use any trackers except the one added by WordPress which is for statistical purposes. You’re free to even block that one.

Polls

For the most part, participating in polls is not connected to you individually. It does keep up with your IP address so you can’t vote 100 million times. Other than that, there’s absolutely NO WAY for me to know how you voted in these polls, so be as nice or angry as you want.

Language/Spelling

You probably already know that I am from the United States but live in Australia. Sometimes the browser I use is the US version and sometimes it’s the UK version, so the autocorrect changes what I write. You might see both. It’s not because I’m trying to impress anybody, but because I really don’t like red underlines when I type or fighting with the spell check in different browsers.

Have questions?

If something isn’t clear or wasn’t covered, feel free to send me a message and we’ll have a little chat.